Jaipur Ajit Foundation of Rajasthan in
association with UNICEF and UNFPA had organised two days programme on ‘Dialogue
with Youth on Education, Livelihood and Citizenship’ in line with ‘Youth Policy
for Young India’. On the second day, key participants had summarized the
discussions and had come to conclusive issues that need to be addressed. Not
only the issues, but they have proposed the advisory to make young India a good
citizen.
Committee
had advised a Life Skill Coach in schools and colleges who can exclusively
consult and enhance the communication skill, confidence building, leadership
quality and mentorship programmes for the students’ livelihood. In nut shell,
the normative and non-cognitive aspects can be addressed separately to the
youth with education. Happiness Enhancement can play a major role in the
development of the young India. Many countries have seen better results by
taking care of happiness aspect in making youth better citizens. Happiness
enhancement experience to the young India gives them positivity and happiness
which adds up more energy to grow. If an individual grows, nation grows.
Prof. Prof. VS Vyas, Chairman of
Ajit Foundation said, “The
two days’ discussion on addressing on education, livelihood and citizenship
with youth has highlighted some burning aspects which will help to give
direction to create a Youth Policy. We will propose these advisory to the state
government and will play an important role to continue consulting on Youth
Policy.”
India
has a distinct advantage of having a very large youth population. Nearly 60
percent of the country’s population is in the age group 16 to 34. With such a
demographic structure, two advantages are quite obvious. One, a very large
productive workforce is available in the country, and two, proportion of
non-working people, people in the age group of 60 and above is much less. In
order to spell out the issues and explore possible approaches to sound
education, enhancement of employment opportunities and to inculcate a sense of
purposefulness among the youth, Ajit Foundation, a civil society institution
working with youth for last 23 years, proposes to organize a Consultation and
bring out a document on Approach to Youth Policy. The Foundation has earlier
organized such Consultations on the Girls Policy in Rajasthan, and Right to
Education – The Next Phase.
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